(2) recognizes gendered and colonialist approaches to pan-journalistic knowledge, (3) challenges these systems of scientific domination, and (4) provides alternative knowledge sources and research methods for journalism cum transcendental media.
leading to more inclusive, diverse, and equitable journalistic and pan-ethno-engaging media more focused upon human relationships in today's global information matrix.
Permanent talk about fake news does more harm than the product itself. There you go. Live with it.
We explore how the prominence of talk about fake news has effects on overall media trust and the ability of the public to accurately distinguish between real and fake news. Second, we add to research on media skepticism (Tsfati & Cappella, 2003) by offering causal evidence of the relationship between exposure and overall media trust. Finally, we offer evidence that accurately identifying news as real or fake may not be explained by ideology like other priming effects (Watts et al., 1999). Our findings suggest that discourse about fake news may be doing more harm than exposure to fake news itself.
Those believing to be in the know are probably less so.
Individuals primed with elite discourse about fake news identified real news with less accuracy than those who were not primed (H1b). As expected, political knowledge related to accurate identification of real news, where the more knowledgeable were more accurate than the less knowledgeable. Neither of these findings were true for the identification of fake news.
Then take into account the extreme form of "media nihilism".
Considering that our results differ from media skepticism associated with political ideology, it is possible that the phenomenon exhibited here is an extreme skepticism that impedes one’s ability to identify truth, what we call “media nihilism.” Beyond media skepticism that questions the fairness of both fake and real news, media nihilism is a skewed perception ofnews media that assumes falsehood even in the face of truth. Our data reflect this skewed skepticism of real news after exposure to elite discourse about fake news. Taken together, findings suggest that the prominence of fake news in elite discourse is problematic for democracy. As fake news continues to be a point of elite attention, it becomes a more prominent standard for the evaluation of news media as a whole. These results have practical implications for how fake news is discussed publicly. Although elites may have good intentions in drawing public attention to the issue of fake news and misinformation more generally, this may highlight a minimal problem at a great expense. When discussing fake news, it may be important to provide context to qualify the extent to which it is actually present. Moreover, as news organizations look to distinguish themselves from fake news alternatives, they should do so with linguistic caution. Simply echoing the language of “fake news” may have a boomerang effect on the public’s trust in and evaluations of their own work.
Abstract We measure trends in the diffusion of misinformation on Facebook and Twitter between January 2015 and July 2018. We focus on stories from 570 sites that have been identified as producers of false stories. Interactions with these sites on both Facebook and Twitter rose steadily through the end of 2016. Interactions then fell sharply on Facebook while they continued to rise on Twitter, with the ratio of Facebook engagements to Twitter shares falling by approximately 60 percent. We see no similar pattern for other news, business, or culture sites, where interactions have been relatively stable over time and have followed similar trends on the two platforms both before and after the election.
Written by Carey Wedler (ANTIMEDIA) Even as trust in the mainstream media wanes, Americans continue to fall victim to established narratives, waxing hysterical over everything from nuclear war and natural disasters to race wars and disease. But there is at least one voice of reason.
Enter JP Sears, the viral internet sensation who blends sarcasm with spiritually and humor with heavy topics. In his latest video — which is, unsurprisingly, going viral — he breaks down “How to be Mind Controlled.”
“Would you like the escape the horrible reality of thinking your own thoughts? Me too. Learning to have your mind controlled is your key to escaping the hell of thinking for yourself.”
He delves right into calling out the media for terrifying the population into obedience and submission.
“Good evening,” he says. “Life is a dangerous tragedy. When you accidentally start feeling peaceful or start thinking about what’s really important to you, that’s your cue to turn on the news. We’ll make you scared instead. Then you’ll instinctively want someone to protect you, which will make you completely submissive and controllable to those who you think will protect you.”
Impersonating the average fear-mongered news consumer, JP Sears continues:
“I live in a constant state of fear because scary things would happen if I wasn’t scared all the time.”
“Thinking for yourself is like going to the grocery store and bagging your own groceries,” he muses. “It’s just a lower-class way of thinking. It’s significantly more luxurious to have someone else bag your groceries for you.”
He also waxes existential, tackling the fundamental problem of consciousness in our modern society:
“You’ll sleep better at night when you’re convinced to believe the thoughts in your head are your own. Because they’re in your mind, it’ll be easy for you to believe they came from your mind.”
“You’re free to do anything we want you to do,” he says. “You need to be under the spell of fear to make you hypnotically suggestible.”
“Poverty, disease, terrorism, war, nuclear war, cyber warfare, germ warfare, biochemical warfare, and death are all wonderful things to be afraid of. Then it’s much easier for you to be controlled because you’ll be convinced to do whatever they want you to do because you’ll think doing so will help you avoid one of the things you’re afraid of.”
Sounds about right. This sentiment also aligns with what JP Sears, who started his career as an emotional healing coach, told Anti-Media in an interview earlier this summer. “We as a society, and I mean this in the most loving way … I think we as a society have positioned ourselves as helpless victims bleeding out of power,” he said, referring in particular to the chaos that has enveloped the age of Trump.
He also believes much of the strife we see in society is a result of people’s inner struggles, which are often projected back out into the real world and political world.
“We’ll help you obsessively monitor large-scale politics because it’ll help you ignore your own life,” he says sarcastically in his recent video.
“If you feel worse after watching [the news], then you’re doing better.”
As he said of political language during our interview:
“I think it is an incredibly low vibrational, low consciousness trap of a language. I think political language is not engineered to understand, accept or connect. I think it’s a language based out of the building blocks of separation.”
This is, again, reflected in “How to be Mind Controlled.”
“The scary thing is that if you went a day without watching the news, you’d start to notice that there are a lot more things to appreciate than there are to be afraid of,” he says. “That’s why it’s important to watch the news every day. Preferably three times a day.”
“Imagine the disaster that would happen if you got in touch with your passions. It might lead you to want to do things that are outside of your thrilling coffin of conformity. Then you’d probably end up getting shot at point-blank range by a nuclear missile and eaten by wolves. It’s a scary world out there.”
As JP Sears told us:
“To me, humor can be an awakening language where we listen and consider something that we otherwise wouldn’t even listen to in the first place,” he said. “So, how that works, in my delusional opinion, is that humor is a language of connection, full stop.”
He has made similar videos on topics ranging from the American Heart Association’s condemnation of coconut oil to the 2016 election, as well as the yoga and spiritual communities, vegans, and Millennials.
Die deutschen Medien sind keine 'Lügenpresse'. Sie sind widerwärtige Kriegshetzer, anti-Russland Ganoven, die sich in ihrer perfiden Art arschkriechend an die deutsche Regierung hängen. Eine Regierung, die um den Niedergang der EU weiss und sich nun einem demokratisch gewählten amerikanischen Präsidenten gegenüber gestellt sieht, der Business redet.
Die Anti-Trump Tiraden sind von solch infantil-dummer Art und verlogenen Durchtriebenheit, dass man von einem völligen Verlust jeglicher journalistischen Ethik sprechen kann. Hier nachfolgend ein Google übersetzter Post aus Amerika.
Das ist ein Must-see Video, um das dreckige Spiel der deutschen Medien zu verstehen.
Dennis Kucinich, ehemaliger US-Präsident und demokratischer Präsidentschaftskandidat, verteidigte am Dienstag Donald Trump zum Thema " Morgen mit Maria ".
In Bezug auf die Rücktritt von Michael Flynn, verteidigte Kucinich Trump und sagte zu Amerika "Wacht auf".
Anti-Russland Spiel
In dem Interview tadelte Kucinich Fraktionen der US-Geheimdienste, weil sie irgendeine positive Beziehung zwischen Russland und den USA beenden wollten, in der Hoffnung auf eine Rückkehr des kalten Krieges.
Kucinich nicht sehen, dies als ein Anti-Trumpf-Spiel, sondern ein Anti-Russland-Spiel "" Es ist nicht nur diese Verwaltung. Ich möchte die Ansichten und all diejenigen, die auf dem Podium, dass in den letzten Monaten der Obama-Regierung, sie zusammen ein Abkommen mit Russland, um Frieden in Syrien zu schaffen erinnern. Ein paar Tage später tötete ein Militärschlag in Syrien hundert syrische Soldaten und das beendete die Vereinbarung. Was geschehen ist, ist in der Intelligenz und im Pentagon eine bewusste Anstrengung, eine Vereinbarung, die das Weiße Haus gemacht hat, zu sabotieren. "
Das ist wie "Deep State", sagte Kucinich.
Ich nehme an: Wer gegen den Krieg will, der die Beziehungen zu Russland aufnehmen will, hat zumindest etwas am Ball.
With the German press' constant anti-Russia articles it is worthwhile listening to Stephen Cohen, an American scholar and professor emeritus of Russian studies at Princeton University and New York University, who studied Russian politics since decades.
In this interview Mr. Cohen dives back into fairly historicalevents of the Cuba crises.
The German media are playing a dirty game. Small wonder, German politics is so keen in going against 'fake news' for the sole purpose of stifling free speech.
